Inhabitants of several provinces of northern Argentina said on Sunday he saw a “huge fireball” crossing the sky. The phenomenon, which made night into day for a few seconds, was most visible in Santiago del Estero, but was also observed in Catamarca, La Rioja, Chaco, Corrientes, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Tucumán.
Mariano Rivas , coordinator of Air Astronomy Planetarium of Buenos Aires, told C5N channel, the fireball was due to the explosion of a meteor.The phenomenon was observed at about 3:20 (7:20 Portuguese time) and some residents reported that they felt a slight earthquake before the fireball pass.
‘This is a meteor that entered the atmosphere at a speed of 130,000 kilometers “per hour told the Argentine media director of the Astronomical Observatory of Santa Fe
Jorge Coghlan explained that “it was a dimension greater than a meteorite ‘and that’ disintegrated when he was at an altitude of 65 kilometers “. The expert added that the object entered the atmosphere with an approximate size of 20 cm in diameter. “
According to Jorge Coghlan, thousands of fireballs in the sky pass daily without that we can see. “What started this Sunday was just bigger and origin as primitive as our planet,” he concluded.
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